Georgia Perry

For the last 20 years, the Partnership for Re-Entry Program, or PREP, has helped more than 40,000 inmates. GSR talks to founder Dominican Sr. Mary Sean Hodges and executive director Tony Kim, himself a former inmate.

"A friend once told me, 'We sisters, we don't retire, we re-engage.' Now, I re-engaged as an artist and a musician. Something I always wanted to do, and here I am, in my elder years, enjoying it."

To help stop overdoses in the late '90s, Sisters of Charity planned a medically supervised injecting site for intravenous drug users. Today, their efforts have yielded about 100 sites worldwide.

Loretto Sr. Anna Koop sat down to talk with GSR about the Denver Catholic Worker house; growth, gentrification and homelessness; and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects her ministry.

Anne Goetze spent 20 years documenting her American-born aunt Helen at the cloistered monastery in Annecy, France, where the Visitation Order was founded 400 years ago. Over the last few years, Goetze has taken her photographs/paintings of the Visitation sisters on the road, visiting the 11 Visitation monasteries in the U.S. and holding exhibitions of her work so the sisters can see it. 

Dominican Sr. Lucianne Siers is director of the Institute of Religious Formation at the Catholic Theological Union, based in Chicago, leading what many consider to be a radical shift in religious life: Her work with formating sisters emphasizes developing one's individual personality alongside the self-surrender that comes with the choice to enter religious community life.